iNaturalist observation - @jemeny
- female above dark yellow-orange
- antenna pale (can be partially dark but never solid black)
- head and thorax above with a dark line on each side (head line not evident in this specimen)
- head large, quadrate, nearly equalling thorax in breadth
- stigma large
- furrows separating anterior and lateral lobes of mesoscutum barely evident
- scutellum anteriorly rounded; hind lobes obliquely truncated, short
- antenna clavate; club longer than preceding 3 segments; first joint subglobular; second shortest; third, fourth and fifth cylindric, and of equal length; sixth large, elongate, ovate, and longer than the 3 preceding joints taken together
- longer than front margin of clypeus (1.9mm vs 1.6mm), longer than distance between insertions (1.9mm vs 1.3mm), not longer than head (1.9mm vs. 2.4mm)
clypeus very wrinkled
upper part of head without any shining interspaces among punctures
iNaturalist observation - @jemeny
- body yellow below
- mid and hind legs (only hind legs here) with apex of tibia, apex of first joint and nearly the whole of the subsequent joints of tarsi black
- stigma large, almost linear and narrow
- dorsum of abdomen uniformly yellow-orange, lacking dark marks
- white blotches on lateral edges of all terga
- mid and hind legs (only hind legs here) with apex of tibia, apex of first joint and nearly the whole of the subsequent joints of tarsi black
- pronotum indented on posterior border
- mesopleurae at least in middle densely, regularly punctured
genitalia dissected from abdomen, showing lance and pair of lancets
pair of lancets
lance - lateral view
lance - dorsal view
distal region of a lancet with teeth
tip of lancet
mid part of lancet
single tooth (serrula) in mid region of lancet
compare to following image from Morice (1919)
photomicrograph of saw of Pseudoperga lewisii - Morice (1919) Pl. 14, Fig. 13